Luca Vitone

Luca Vitone (Genoa, 1964) is a visual artist based in Berlin. His artwork began in the second half of the 80’s. It focuses on the idea of the place, inviting us to recognize something we already know, defying the conventions of mutable, faded memory that characterize the present. His work explores the way places are identified through cultural production: art, cartography, music, cuisine, political associations, ethnic minorities. Vitone bridges the gap between the sense of loss of place characteristic of the postmodern and the ways in which feelings of belonging arise in the intersection of personal and collective memory. He reconstructs and invents forgotten paths to reconfigurate his own personal geography. The work of Luca Vitone has been shown in public and private space both in Italy and abroad. Since 2006 he has been teaching at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.

His works have been exposed in many important institutions in Italy and abroad among: Openspace, Milan; Accademia di Francia; Villa Medici, Rome; OK-Centrum, Linz; PS1, New York; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; PAC, Milan; Casino Luxemburg; Lenbachaus Kunstbau, Munich; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; 2° Biennale de Valencia; 50° Venice Biennial; ARC Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Villa Arson, Nice; GNAM, Rome; MART, Rovereto; 8° Sharjah Biennial; GAMeC, Bergamo; Museion, Bolzano; 4° Tirana Biennal; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; CAPC, Bordeaux; BOZAR, Bruxelles; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow; Weserburg Museum, Brema; MAXXI, Rome.